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Right now, that's a big story in the news. As a fella
from over in North Richland Hills and he's taking the time to join us this
morning. He's had a lot of media obligations because this man has changed his
name to literally anybody else. That is his new name, literally anybody else,
and he's running for president, and he joined us live on the Freak
Hotline for his first interview on the radio here in DFW. Good morning,
literally, Hi, how's it going going well? Thanks for taking the time.
Are you going by mister else? Now? What's your what's your plan?
There? So? Yes, my my legal name is literally anybody else.
But you know, when I get to the personal level, I tell
people my mama still calls me Dustin, and they can do so if they
like, yeah, formerly Dustin Abby Abby, maybe ebe Dustin ebe uh Army
veteran seventh grade math teacher in suburban Dallas. I guess just start with that.
How big of a pain is it to legally change your name? What
are the hoops you got to jump through? And looks you get? It's
yeah, I mean it's it was. It was the ordeal like it's the
same pretty much as what she would do for any circumstance, not not just
you know, something as intentionally or pragmatic as this. It was interesting because
when I went to Terrank County Family Court, the judge was dealing with like
some very very serious like divorce cases, like nasty ones. And when she
finished her docket and moved on to the name changes, she got to me,
and I guess she was still in that mode of you know, no
nonsense. I wasn't looking for bid. She looked at the she looked at
my petition for a name change, and she looked up at me and she
says, you're going to be that guy. That was like, uh,
I like somebody else too? Is it weird? So you've done this.
You've changed your name legally to literally anybody else. And we can get into
why and all that in just a moment, but you get the name changed
done, and then the story pops, if you will. And I just
googled literally anybody else, and it's The Guardian, it's the Hill, it's
a New York Post. I mean, it's on you know how news is.
And this is a oh yeah, funny kind of an interesting thing for
sure. But you got probably forty eight hours of every single headline website running
this story, like how's your last forty eight hours? Great? Later today,
I have another radio interview for station in Toronto, and another TV interview
for a news nation. So it's definitely, it's definitely blowing up. What
I'm trying to make sure happens is that while I have the attention in this
way, that I'm able to get this message out to as many people that
it resonates with as possible. You know, this is something that I felt
was needed, hence the actual plunge into you know, changing the name.
And you know, I had had conversations prior to making this step, and
I knew I wasn't the only one who felt that Trump and Biden were just
not meeting the standards that Americans have a right to to be honest, but
I've never expected it to blow up as fast as it did so prior to
Friday's interview, So on Thursday, I was still a virtual unknown and now
I'm yeah, it's it's crazy how many people were able to latch on to
the concept so quickly. And its been so you know, validating for one
but inspiring, humbling, and you know, it's it definitely helps with putting
in the time for motivating me to play in the time to make sure that
this is able to you know, achieve its fullest potential. I'm not surprised
at the attention this is getting. I mean, changing your name to this
and then claiming that you're going to run for president does have a measure of
sizzle to it. But after you get the name change and you go through
that process and that's all well and good, did you kind of sit back
and go, oh, crap, Now I've got to come up with some
policy and some platforms to run on. And how how am I How are
my debate tactics and public speaking skills and all of that stuff has to come
into play. I mean, how seriously are you taking this outside of just
kind of making a splash in the media. Yeah, I'm taking it as
I can for those skills that you mentioned, like if there are things that
I'm constantly working on. One of the reasons why I took so many interviews
is to actually build the fluency for you know, talking about what I'm doing,
how I'm doing it, you know, having that rhetoric, that persuasion.
You know. It's these things can only get better with practice, and
you can only practice it if you kind of dive, you know, into
it head first, you know. And it's one of those the uh fires,
the tribulation make the purest gold. Right. Yeah, well it's also
like so this is by the way, this is Dustin, but his name
is now literally anybody else. I mean, look, five minutes ago,
New York Post is picking it up, its spreading like wildfire. And I
think in your article w f A one thing that you said that I liked
and agreed with was the idea that the common person doesn't just go to one
side. You know, the common person has beliefs that are from the Republican
side and the Democratic side. That's what most people have. And for sure
you also made the comment that there's not a neither option on the ballot when
you went and voted. But what do you specifically have to do to get
on the ballot, Like, how can we see you, you know,
join in the debate? How are you the next Ralph Nader? You know?
How does this happen? All right? So for getting on the debate
stage, I would need enough spots on the ballot to actually win, all
right, So I either have the top ten states popular population wise or the
bottom forty. To get on the ballot in Texas, I would need to
have one hundred and thirteen and fifty one signatures by the second Monday of May.
You like forty days? Fifty days? Yeah, I did the math,
so from starting to finish, I would need to collect the four per
minute or to make a full time job out of it. And aren't you
outside of the AC trying to do that? Are you trying to are you
trying to go the signature out or the right in? I know you're explaining
it right now, Go ahead, so I can pursue both. The right
in wouldn't be due or accepted until September, so I can still pursue the
signature oute because the deadline for the signature out is May, so even if
I don't meet that requirement, I can still have the right in to fall
on. Now, I do have a cheeky plan that I'm kind of going
to announce April first. It's kind of like a joke, so I'll be
on the lookout for that. But it's a technicality and the wording of the
statute in Texas law, and I thought it was really interesting. Okay,
again, it's more an aqua fools for that specific technicality than anything, but
we'll see how it goes. So by trade school teacher, correct, seventh
grade? Is that right? Correct. Okay, seventh grade math bird veliasty.
I mean it's common knowledge that the teaching profession, the people that fill
those roles, that necessary, beautiful role that is in our society, are
wildly underpaid. When it comes to running a campaign, you are well aware
how freaking expensive that is. What is your strategy or do you have a
strategy in place to start raising money to run a campaign an efficient campaign?
And number two, do you have any pending judgments or lawsuits against you that
would possibly drain those funds if you were able to ascertain them as far as
lawsuits, none yet. Okay, well then you're one step ahead of the
game. Oh yeah, I see that, right, you're going on it
should have make that connection. But as far as like funding the campaign,
you know, the way the analogy that I like to use for this is
the name puts the car on a mountain, and once the car starts moving
the mountain, the down the mountain, you know, it kind of gains
momentum by virtue of its own weight and as it's going. Because I've been
receiving funding, there's I have a portal for people to donate on the website
and some people have found the GoFundMe that I've put in place, and they've
been donating, so as I get those in, that's fuel in the car,
so that when I'm no longer on the mountain, like on the momentum
of the name, it can go off of the fuel of donations and such.
Kevin's still trying to decipher the car down the mountain analogy. I'll explain
it to you after the show. He's drawn a mountain in a car.
No, I agree, though, it is a snowball thing, like you
need the apathy or anger of the nation to get behind literally anybody else.
Yeah, and the fact that, yeah, that this is even possible,
like I I should not be popular, like I should not have any attention.
But the simple reality is is that where we are with our current candidates
is it's not right. It's not where we should be. You know,
America was founded off of you know, unity. You know, we came
together toward a common cause and we got stuff done. And now it's just
we're so polarized. It's like I said, like so, like we said
earlier, you know, the average American has opinions on both sides of that
political spectrum. But we are so polarized socially. That and that's actually probably
one of my biggest plaints about these two candidates is that it's not necessarily them.
It is them, but it's the effect that they have in America.
Yeah. You know, they say a bad relationship can bring out the worst
in you, and I think the relationship that America has with these presidents has
brought out the worst us. I also think people like to vote for bits,
I mean voter make vote face one that thing for a reason. People
like the bit. I'm trying hard not to fall into that trap. Like
the name itself is very gimmicky, but I you know, what, what
should be real for them seems a joke, and what should be a joke
in me is getting real. This is uh literally anybody else political candidate Hio.
I have a weird question. I don't know if you heard this one.
Have you ever seen the nineteen eighty five Richard Pryor film Brewsters Millions?
No, but I've heard about it since I started doing this. I heard
he ran under none of the above. Yeah, he was trying to burn
money to unlock the remainder of his inheritance. It's a fine film, but
one of the ways he does is to start a kind of a bit candidacy
for New York mayor, and he he changed his name to none of the
above, which is exactly the premise that you're kind of going for. So
I just wondered if you'd seen that movie, and yah, it kind of
it kind of worked for him. It was this was an original thought of
mine. It's it is funny that somebody had actually made a movie about the
same concept, and I kind of wish I knew about it prior, but
it was it was a long road that actually got me here between purchasing the
domain last year, because that was intending to sell like memorabilia. It's like,
oh, hey, if it's gonna if it's going to be bad,
might as well make money off of it. Yeah. But once it got
past a certain point and I was like, this, we need to something
needs to happen. Let me ask you this, because you have to be
thirty five years old to be president of the United States. You are currently
thirty five. So this is something we're you waiting for to meet the minimum
age requirement. I guess in a sense, I mean I had these feelings
in the last two elections, but it wasn't anything that I could act on.
I mean I remember thinking as a guy, I wish we had somebody
else, And when it came down to this time, I was like,
you know what, I'm old enough. If nobody else is going to step
up, I guess I guess I should. One of those there's a song
by an artist named Matthew West called Do Something, and it's one of those
is like you listen to that and then it just kind of sticks with you
and it's like, dude, oh this is really going to happen. Man,
I mean I like it. And there's, like I said, the
apathy around right now. It's a good idea. Need the snowball to start
rolling down the hill or the car to start driving down the mountain side.
Let me ask you this. I know that you you can say you haven't,
but when you lay down at night and close your eyes, you think
what if? What if? What if I get in this thing? And
what if I win? I know you've pictured yourself in the Oval office literally
anyone else haven't you. Well, of course that's just you know, inevitable,
And it's one of those things, is like, if it's bad enough
for me to win the overall office. Like that's I mean, yeah,
so what Like I said, what I would focus on in that position primarily
would be reducing the debt. That would probably be the number one thing as
that just stands right now. Like I said earlier, you know, my
three year old daughter, oh, was twenty thousand dollars. And you know,
we should be able to run a country kind of the same way we
run a house. You know, we need to balance that budget and spend
responsibly. Did your daughter get a hold of your credit card and buy a
cyber truck? Why is she in so much debt? Because if you take
the seven trillion dollars that have been added to the national debt during these two
presidents, actually that one was Trump, the other one was Biden, and
divide it out among the you know, three one hundred and thirty million people
that we have in this country. That's how much we owe per person.
I just thought your kid was really bad at finances. I didn't really get
the reference there. She is very bad at financing. She does a lot
of stuff in the buggy. I don't think she knows how much that stuff
costs you. So you'll get that straightened out. Your math teacher will get
it all turned out in time. Well, you're on the front page of
every damn website this morning, literally every one or anyone else, uh,
trying to run for president, trying to get on ballots and uh yeah,
honestly, just google that you will see as I know you are. You
are worldwide right now, So I guess it's very humbling. Yeah, no,
it's fun. Man. He's a North Texas guy who's uh doing a
bit, but you know it's a bit that sort of does fit our current
political climate. So we salute you at the end of this. I just
want us to be better. There you go. When I started like,
that's like, you know, make it or break it. That's if if
the political landscape is better because of what I did, that's a success.
Well, thank you so much, but sorry, by the way, it'll
take people getting involved and spreading this message. Well, I think it's cool,
definitely cool and fun. You know. So I think a lot of
people are looking together like, uh all right, oh here it is again.
I can't believe we're running it back. And it's good to have another
option. Literally, anybody else, Thank you so much for the time this
morning. We appreciate it and mind if I put one message out there please
all right, So, as they said, I've been getting a whole lot
of media attention, and I have been fielding an absurd amount of media requests
and calls and donations and volunteer forms, and it's quite frankly, just too
much for one person. So if you are out there and you believe in
this message and this movement, please please please reach out to me and help.
I want to make sure that everybody that believes in this knows their heart
that is taking care of. So reach out to me. I'll put you
to work. We can get this and get this going. What's your email?
Do you get that out? What's the website? The website literally anybody
else dot com? Okay, all right, got a good one. We'll
send him there. Indeed, I appreciate it. And the emails on the
bottom of that website contact at literally anybody else is thank you for your time,
John, thank you. There he goes literally anybody else who knows that
could be I think the next president, and we had him before my first
could be could be. Wow, that was pretty wild. It's every too,
if you google it, it is. Yeah, literally on everything.
I mean everywhere is picking this up and running with it. And w f
A got their hands on it two or three days ago, and uh it
touch you last though. He's tons of interviews coming, but it was fun,
all right? Come hup next he's learning how to become president in real
time? Yeah, he said, he has almost practiced for my other interviews
later today. How is that really? It doesn't feel that different than what's
been happening, right, you know, Yeah, we can't have someone we
can't have someone like this guy just has no idea what they're doing be president,
right, that'd be crazy, just winging it absolutely. At eight o'clock,
I've been trying to learn how to do live radio for almost thirty years.
Now, you'll figure it out one day, man, I don't know.
Maybe At eight thirty and ding' Goose Morning News. At eight Rangers held
their annual Hey we get new foods at the ballpark. Everyone come out.
But there's a bit of a wrinkle to that, and you need to hear
it at eight o'clock because I, for one am shocked. But coming up
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